reasonaway

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by reasonaway 7y ago
read the linked blog post that started this thread!
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by reasonaway 7y ago
the blog post shows this argument is false.
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by reasonaway 7y ago
the graphs with made up data? when you look at actual data, all his claims are false.
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by reasonaway 7y ago
but all his specific arguments are completely false - see the linked blog post!
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by reasonaway 7y ago
he examines specific claims made by Taleb in detail and shows them to be completely wrong in every case. that can be reasonably described as addressing the substance of his arguments. can you identify any specific problems with the analysis
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by reasonaway 7y ago
but it does scale beyond 80 points. why ignore all the available evidence and trust instead the Taleb's evidence free assumptions?
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by reasonaway 7y ago
it is all unfounded speculation based on mathematica simulations and his own assertions. there is no empirical support for his arguments.
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by reasonaway 7y ago
IQ predicts more than just income. It has incremental value for predicting scientific publications, academic achievement, patents etc even within the top percentile. http://adamlgreen.com/smpy/ there is also no evidenc
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by reasonaway 7y ago
you keep claiming that there is some threshold above which it does not predict anything even though this contradicts all available evidence. like taleb your beliefs are based on nothing more than unfounded speculation.
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by reasonaway 7y ago
this article is extremely weird. juul is doing exactly what you would expect it to do if the product was completely safe. what is wrong with marketing your own safe product? the article refers to "mounting evidence of health complicati
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by reasonaway 7y ago
The complexity of how biological mechanisms work does not change basic facts about genetics. There isn't any conflict between the two. Your second point is not true for complex polygenic traits like height. Height is strongly influence
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by reasonaway 7y ago
Genes do explain much of the variation between people for many characteristics. You can think of them as initial character stats that are then modified by environmental factors and random noise.